Postmodern approaches to the short story / edited by Farhat Iftekharrudin ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Iftekharuddin, Farhat.

Society for the Study of the Short Story.

Conference Name:

Biennial International Conference on the Short Story (1998 : New Orleans, La.)

Series:

Contributions to the study of world literature 0738-9345 ; no. 118.

Contributions to the study of world literature, 0738-9345 ; no. 118

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short story.

Physical Description:

xi, 156 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

Contents:

Part I Discovering the Shapes of the Short Story 1

1 The Challenge of "June Recital": Generic Considerations in the Structure of The Golden Apples / Donna Jarrell 3

2 The End of the World: Closure in the Fantasies of Borges, Calvino, and Millhauser / David Sheridan 9

3 Genre and the Work of Reading in Mansfield's "Prelude" and "At the Bay" / Suzanne Ferguson 25

4 Death and the Reader: James's "The Beast in the Jungle" / Arthur A. Brown 39

5 Sandra Benitez and the Nomadic Text / Andrea O'Reilly Herrera 51

Part II Exploring the World of the Short Story 63

6 Postmodern Issues in Janette Turner Hospital's Nature-Dominated Short Stories "The End-of-the-line End-of-the-world Disco" and "Our Own Little Kakadu" / Donna J. Davis 65

7 The Virtuous Complaint: Iranian Short Fiction of the 1960s-1970s / Rivanne Sandler 77

8 Jean Toomer's Cane / Donald Petesch 91

9 Homi K. Bhabha and the Postcolonial Short Story / Catherine Ramsdell 97

Part III Encountering Issues of Gender and Sexuality 107

10 Wharton's Short Fiction of War: The Politics of "Coming Home" / Mary Carney 109

11 Living in a World of Make-Believe: Fantasy, Female Identity, and Modern Short Stories by Women in the British Tradition / Adrienne Gavin 121

12 The Fourierist Parables of Guy Davenport / Patrick Meanor 133.

Notes:

"Under the auspices of the Society for the Study of the Short Story."

Revised selection of papers presented at the Biennial International Conference on the Short Story held in New Orleans, Louisiana in July 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0313323747

OCLC:

49959329